Cancer treatment based on cowpox moves to clinical trials | Sky News Australia

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Australian biotechnology company Imugene is developing a treatment based on cowpox — called CF33 — to treat cancers.

Following success in petri dishes and mice, CF33 will move on to clinical trials for people affected

by triple negative breast cancer, melanoma, lung cancer, bladder, gastric and bowel cancer. Image: Getty

 

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